Toothbrush cabinet



Sept. 3, 1929. R. M. G. PHILLIPS TOOTHBRUSH CABINET Filed May 18, 19271 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR Ross M 611 mm Sept. 3,1929.

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- This invention relates to a brush than the enlarged cabinet and is designed particularly as a convenient holder for one or more tooth brushes that will be protected against d slodgment, dirt or other foreign substances, and be subjected to the influences of a deodorant while in the cabinet.

A further object of the invention 1s to rovide a tooth brush cabinet-that Wlll be composed of few parts, so des1 ed as to be economically constructed an easily aflixed to a wall or the like.

With these, and other ends in wow, the invention consists in the embodiment and arran ement of parts hereinafter described and c aimed, reference bein had to .the accompanying drawings, w ch 1 Figure 1 is a front view .of my unproven tooth brush cabinet with the cover in its up or open position; v

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view thereof, the parts in section being taken generally upon line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a rear view of the cablnet with the cover in its closed positlon;

Figure 4 is .a side elevation thereof with the cover in a partially closed posltion;

Figure 5 is a transverse sectional view of the body member, the parts 111 sect1on being taken generally upon line 5+5 of Figure 1; Figure 6 is a front elevation oi s modified form of cabinet;

Figure 7 is a transverse sectional view thereof the" parts in section being taken generally upon line 7-7 of Figure 6; and

Figure 8 is a transverse sectional view thereof with the cover in a partly open position.

In the embodiment of my invention, as

shown herein, 1O designates the body member which is constructed with a back portion 11, side portions 12; bottom 13, and top portion 14.

The back portion 11 is provided with a pluralit 'of o enings 15 to admit attaching screws 6, an one or more recesses 17 to receive plaster or the like if the cabinet is positioned while the wall is being formed. Other convenient means for attaching the cabinet may be adapted equally as well as those descrlbed.

In the back portion 11 is a depression 18, through the bottom of 'which is a slot 19 to receive the stud 20 of the deodorizing membar 21, the head 22 ot the stud 20 is smaller body member.

rtion 0f the slot 19. The means just escribed provides convenient mechanism for separably securing the member21 in a fixed position within the with a deodorant .23 and the front face thereof is provided with perforations24.

In the bottom 13 is a plurality of o nings 25 to facilitate the circulation of zir This member 2L is filled within the body-member. These holes may be omitted entirely ore. greater or less number 1provided as may be convenient,

T e front edge oi the bottom is provided with a plurality of slots 26, which terminate 1n openin 27.

In placing the tooth brush in the cabinet the handle of the brush is passed throu 11 one ofthe slots 28 and into an openin 57, its 203113011 then being substantially as e o by roken lines in Figure 2. p

The top portion 14 is concaved, to provide a convenient shelfto hold tubes of tooth paste and the like, and the upper end of each of the side portions 12- is cut away at 28 to glow water to drain from the top portion The cover 29 is hinged at 36 to the body member and is preferably provided with side plates 31, which lie parallel with and against the outer edge of the side portions 12 when the cover is in its down position.

One or more openings 32 in the cover facilitate circulation of air within the body member, and a convenient finger piece 33 is formed thereon for manual movement of the cover. v

To provide a separate compartment for each tooth brush, 1 insert an inner wall in 4 the body member, which consists preferably of a single piece of sheet meal folded into a plurality of U-shape sections 34, each of which has one or more openings 35 therethrough to facilitate the circulation of air.

sibility of falling ofi and concealed from view.

'- has'a front in s yp i '1 i t' j i In Figures 6, and 8 is shown a form of this cabine wherein the body member is constructed wlth e backplate 88, a top .porton 39 curved similar to the top portion 14, and a bottom member 40having slots 41 and openings .42 therein. the back bod plate 38, which may be constructed similar to the back portion 11, if desired, are one or more openings 43 to receive'the. attaching screws. j

The cover member of this form of cabinet rtion 44: withf alfinger tab 46 thereon, an side portions and'is to the body member by. a;p' tie-147.- Open-i ings 48 and 49 facilitate the ifrculation of air within the body member.

A deodorizing member,' similer to the member 21, may be fastenedto the plate 38 or closeldugosition, the bristle end of the- Having described, m claim as new and desire to Patent, is: a

1. In it toothbrush 5m'm't, a bodya back,. a-substantially horizontal formed with -too'th brush, receiving} means and end walls extending outwardlyiat right angles from the back; and a removable-member seated on said horizontal wall and folded to provide 'a U-shaped part which latter encompasses the sides .and rearofthe tooth brush receiving means, to provide a com artment for the tooth brush, the ends of t e member extendin at right angles to the back of the body an being frictionally engaged with the respective ends soi the a back formed with a forwardly epressed part; the center of which is provided with a slot, a removable deodorizing device having a headed stud receivable in the slot and with the head thereof receivable in the depressed artsoastclieina lanespaeed r y from the plane of e back, and

2. In a tooth brush cabinet, :1 bod having tooth brush receiving means carried by the back.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto af- I fixed m ature.

y mgn BOSS M; G. PHILLIPS. 

